Echoes (Frederick Brandeis)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75789:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 860 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Echoes
Composer: Frederick Brandeis
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: sATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1882 Wm. A. Pond
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English text

How sweet the answer Echo makes
    To Music at night
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away o’er lawns and lakes
    Goes answering light!

Yet Love hath echoes truer far
    And far more sweet
Than e’er, beneath the moonlight’s star,
Of horn or lute or soft guitar
    The songs repeat.

’Tis when the sigh,—in youth sincere
    And only then,
The sigh that’s breathed for one to hear—
Is by that one, that only Dear
    Breathed back again.